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Word: dumb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Further, "James" inquires how the committee learned there was going to be a "disturbance." Why, bless your "faithful" heart, "James," the Committee would have been deaf, dumb and blind, if the "wars and rumors of wars" all day prevalent had not reached them. Would any other society, similarly threatened, have failed to take measures to protect itself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/1/1887 | See Source »

...their athletes It is only very occasionally that any of the classical historians relate details, and some of these are obviously incorrect. For instance, it is recorded that the Grecian Phallos, with the aid of the "Halteeres" leaped a distance of 55 feet. "Halteeres" were something similar, to our dumb bells, which the Greeks held in their hands while leaping. They put their hands back, and, swinging them forward with a sudden motion, took the leap. There is no doubt thert use enabled them to jump further than they could have done without them. This has been proved by experience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Modern vs. Ancient Athletes. | 4/26/1887 | See Source »

...follows: Three times a week the game of handball is practiced in the cage by squads of four men from fifteen to twenty minutes a day. As soon as the time for one squad is over and the next one is ready, the men go through a light dumb-bell drill, and then take a run at an easy pace of about seven laps. Four years ago hand-ball was not played at all in connection with the training of the base-ball nines, but now there is not a college in the country which professes to do any gymnasium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Base-Ball. | 3/17/1887 | See Source »

...have now been at work in the gymnasium since the Christmas recess. They pull chest-weights, exercise with wooden dumb-bells, run from five to ten laps on the track, play handball and practice sliding in the cage. The whole is under the immediate supervision of Captain Vila, who is an old hand at this business, having had charge of two nines previous to his admission to college. He sees that the work is done systematically, and that every man is present except those previously excused...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Freshman Nine. | 2/17/1887 | See Source »

...walking squad exercises but little down stairs; pulling on the weights and going through a few movements with the light dumb bells. The real work comes on the track upstairs. The distance walked vary from day to day according to the speed at which they are covered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mott Haven Tream. | 2/11/1887 | See Source »

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